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| Sound stage You need to understand a little bit about stereo hearing. You have two ears that allow you to detect the approximate direction and distance a sound is coming from. Stereo recording and playback is an attempt to capture the original performance's d... | |
| Best of 2014 so far with bitchin soundstage? I take it that you don't know the difference between stereo and two-channel. Stereo is recorded with two microphones about ear distance apart--that's it, nothing more, nothing less. It's the only way to capture the amplitude, time, and phase diffe... | |
| What does "compression" like? Made an error in the url, try this dynamic compression. | |
| What does "compression" like? Compression comes in two forms. Digital file compression, such as MP3s. It discards information that for portable, uncritical listening at low levels won't be disturbing. However, today, when you can hold gigabits of data on a USB drive the size o... | |
| High End Audio-Gaining Higher Ground? Talk to anyone of any age, and they'll tell you the same thing, "I don't care. My this-or-that sounds good 'nough to me. I'm not trying to recreate a concert hall in my home." And most people, especially those in their 20s and 30s, don't have the ... | |
| Great Saxophone Artists and Albums Assuming you're asking for Jazz, here are a few living artistsBranford Marsalis - any album. Perhaps more talented than his more famous brother. Contemporary, yet well grounded in tradition.Joshua Redman - any album. Creative, fresh, distinctive,... | |
| Suggestions short 3' tall floorstander? You have other choices.1) Get an acoustically transparent screenless costly than new speakers.2) Reposition the speakers for 2-channel listeningcosts nothing. | |
| Speakers vs. headphones Have you tried a near-field setup? It may be your only choice in a room that size. Set your listening chair in the middle of the room, or a little behind the mid point from the front wall. Then set up your speakers in an equilateral triangle from ... | |
| Bass leaves after amp warms up? One more possibility: dynamic compression from overheated woofer voice coils. | |
| Bass leaves after amp warms up? It's your ears, not the equipment. If you were to take a measurement, I'd bet you there'd be no change.I frequently find, within the first 5-10 minutes, that I increase the volume about 3 dB. That's at an average level between 80-85 dB. It's a bit... | |
| Best alcohol for party? Anything over $10-12 a bottle is only for parties with serious wine drinkers. You first need to know your guests. If that's not the case, then get some Sam Adams and a few bottles of Chilean or Argentine wines in the 8-12 buck range, 1/3 white to ... | |
| DIY high end speakers? Without hesitation and without peer, the Linkwitz Lab Orion. | |
| Durable under-$70 IEM's for punk, alternative, etc Sennheiser CX-300, best buy at $60. Good ear seal for sound isolation and bass response, suitable for any type of music. | |
| Ideas on speaker like Magnepan but with high WAF Audition some omnidirectional speakers, such as Ohm, or open baffle dynamic speakers. These give you the wide dispersion pattern that helps deliver the stereo imaging/soundstage you want to hear and they do it without the beaming problems of panel... | |
| Most forgiving high end speaker 10k-20k? To answer your question more directly, I'd suggest Vandersteen models 2 or 3, both are under $4k. I've auditioned dozens of speakers and out of all of them they were by far the easiest to listen to, pleasant, smooth, no hard edges.Onhwy61 made man... |